good morning. it is monday, october 15, 2012. welcome to cbs "this morning". the campaigns are tightly focused on tomorrow night's debate, and a new poll shows the presidential race is effectively tied. we hear from flying felix baumgartner after his daring free fall from space. and a top hollywood banker's own words could haunt him in his plus brutality lawsuit. we begin this morning with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. even if he changes his style, he can't change his record and he can't change his policies. >> president obama and mitt romney get ready for round two. >> presidential candidates are hard to find. they are getting ready for

tuesday night's presidential debate. >> it is going great. >> what's the president going to do? is he going to take this behavior of biden and put reasoning behind it. >>cting like a 14-year-old while on camera. he was supposed to be the adult. >> i'm monkey strong, brother. >> a big day for felix baumgartner. his record jump from space sent him plunging faster than the speed of sound. >> i would like to give a special one finger salute to all the folks who said he was going to come apart when he went super sonic. >> pakistani school girl being shot by taliban is being sent to britain for medical treatment. >> you would like to create an islamic state in syria. >> what's wrong with that? >> the space shuttle "endeavour" completeded a long journey home across los angeles with unforeseen obstacles.

>> over 100 people are hurt after a fireworks display goes wrong in china. one of the fireworks shoots into the crowd. >> the detroit tigers have come to yankee stadium and taken the first two. >> the cardinals take game one. >> all that. >> i come in around 6:30 and say the opposite of whatever rachel maddox says the night before and that usually works. >> i'm going ring the bell here. >> on cbs "this morning". >> it's not an early halloween party. it's new york's comic-con. >> it's a great place to find it's new york's comic-con. >> it's a great place to find out what batman would look like. captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs "this morning". i'm charlie rose in new york. nod is in washington.

president obama and mitt romney have quit campaigning they are too busy preparing for tomorrow's second presidential debate. >> a new politico george washington washington university battleground poll shows obama leading romney by one-point. the race is tied. nancy cordes is here. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, norah. they want a different outcome from this debate so it's no surprise the obama team is preparing differently here in williamsburg. fewer distractions. less campaigning. more practice time. and no more talk of the president's rusty debate skills. >> hello, everybody. hello. i brought some food. >> reporter: the president surfaced from debate prep just once this weekend when he dropped off four pizzas at an obama campaign office here in williamsburg. reporters asked him how prep was going? >> it is going great.

>> reporter: his demeanor was a marked shift from 14 days ago when a supporter in nevada asked the very same question before the first debate. >> it's a drag. they are making me do my homework. >> reporter: after being outperformed by governor romney in did he ever and dropping in the polls as a result, president obama and his aides have shaken up their debate prep strategy spending three face holed up at this sprawling resort on the james river, unlike last time in las vegas there are no breaks for sightseeing or for campaign rallies. gone too are attempts to lower expectations for the president's debate performance. instead his top aides like david axelrod are promising a passionate, more energized mr. obama. >> i think he's going to be aggressive in making the case for his view of where we should go as a country and a country that's built around a growing, thriving middle class not this top down theory that governor romney has. >> reporter: one thing that

hasn't changed is the circle of advisers helping the president prepare. the president said no one is to blame but him for his flat first debate performance. >> do i think that on television what was clear is that i was being too restrained when mr. romney was telling his tall tales. >> reporter: but romney says the president is just making excuses and argues his surging poll numbers in most battleground states are a sign the momentum has shifted his way. >> his campaign is about smaller and smaller things and our campaign is about bigger and bigger crowds fighting for a bright future. >> reporter: governor romney has now left the campaign trail as well, heading home to massachusetts to do debate prep too. and the man who has been playing president obama in governor romney's mock debates, ohio senator rob portman said over the weekend the main change they made to their debate prep is that they are getting ready, charlie, for a more aggressive

president obama. >> nancy cordes, thank you. frank luntz is a republican strategist and cbs news political analyst. good morning. aggressive. what does that mean and what risks are there for the president? >> if i am barack obama, i'm focusing on one number. 47%. and i'm trying to drive that home as much as i possibly can, particularly because it's a live studio audience and they are the ones asking the questions. which one of you think you fall in the 47% and governor romney who do you represent here and who do you not? and if i'm mitt romney i'm going to talk about in two words you deserve, you deserve to get your questions answered, mr. president you were asked a direct question and you chose to attack me. how will you work with congress when all you do is take. >> is this format easier for one or the other? >> it's easier and more difficult for both. this is the more compelling format. journalists hate the town hall. they want to ask the questions and the followup because they know the facts but the american people love the town hall format

because the questions are asked the way real people would ask them. >> what do you expect romney to do? >> i expect romney will follow most of what he did the first time with one difference. i think he's going to be very careful with how the president challenges him and that he's going to don't say something to the effect of, there you go again. now you're on the attack. he's got to make barack obama the negative campaigner. over the last ten days mitt romney's favorability has gone up significantly and obama's has stayed about where it's been. >> norah. >> frank you hear obama's advisers trying to make the case that romney is rusty with this type of town hall format. our own mark knoller pointed out as president has done 58 town halls. is it a challenge for the president? >> it's not. everything you do is meant and is designed to interact with people. and as the president for the

last four years he's had all these cameras on him. it's not difficult. the challenge for obama is in a word pivot. how do you pivot from talking about the way things are to what mitt romney has said and what mitt romney will do. the danger is when that pivot goes negative and if obama is seen as being the candidate on the attack that's not good for him. >> and then frank we've seen a new poll from politico showing romney's favorability at 51%. he's struggled with that. has something changed? >> yes. it's the debates. and the fact is that this debate tomorrow night everybody will watch. and those debates have so much more impact than the 30 second ads that you see across the country. norah i'm not looking at the national polling data. i'm watching a single state, ohio. where ohio goes is where america goes. >> so what does romney have to do in ohio to make up the disadvantage he has right now. >> this is going to are heracy.

mitt romney should mention ohio. he should direct it that people here are no different than the people in cleveland, columbus and cincinnati. this is his only chance to do it with a national audience. and then he has to talk about the day-to-day concerns of day-to-day americans and it's not are you better off than you were four years ago, is america better off than it was four years ago. >> frank luntz, thank you very much. >> pleasure. >> syria's government is promising to repair historic mosques in aleppo. it's the scene of some of the worst violence in syria's civil war. islamist militants are taking charge in rebel held areas. while confronting one lear who told her captured government soldiers had been treated fairly but in fact they had actually been executed. >> when we went back we looked at some of the video clips that

your men had given us and i wonder if you could take a look at this one and tell me what is going on in this clip. can you tell me what that video is showing? >> translator: well those were government soldiers in the fighting during the battle. we kind of arrested them. >> what sentence were they given? >> translator: that's something that the judges know more about than i do. >> because we have another version of the video, it's a longer version, and it ends quite differently. you know about these executions? >> translator: no. i was not aware. >> still he defended the decision to execute the soldiers, calling it an eye for

an eye. but when we pointed out that it was his men who were responsible, this was all he could say. >> translator: i really don't know what can i say? >> good morning. >> good morning. >> take me back to that moment we just saw in this confrontation. >> when i watch i want now even i get this pit in my stomach, because in any situation like that where you're confronting someone with a video and say you're a liar basically it requires a lot of boldness and extremely uncomfortable to have to confront them. particularly in this situation given the nature of the situation on the ground in syria, given the nature of the man himself, given the fact that i'm a woman, it was particularly frightening. >> how did it end? >> it ended, you know, we had given ourselves ten minutes in and out policy. we drove straight to the border. there was a moment where there

was a clear flicker of anger across his face. he was as gracious as he could be in that situation and we high tailed it out of there. >> how much of islamists like him taken over areas of syria and a proportion of the free syrian army? >> it's difficult to put an exact number on it. but what you're seeing is that these islamist groups and particularly groups that have foreign fighters, or foreign backing from saudi arabia, from qatar, they have the most traction on the ground. they have the best weapons. they have the best training. they have the best fighters in many cases. >> weapons from where? >> weapons mostly coming from saudi arabia, qatar, other gulf countries. you know, you saw in today's papers the u.s. has espoused the policy of not arming the rebels directly but allowing or possibly assisting in indirectly arming the rebels through countries like these gulf countries like saudi arabia and qatar. the problem you have many private citizen from these countries don't espouse

democratic values per se but support more militant islamist groups. >> let me ask you about that. "new york times" piece this morning that says these arms being supplied by saudi arabia and qatar are going into the hands of these hard line islamic jihadist and not these more secular opposition groups. is it a blow to u.s. strategy there? >> it is. because there's a sense that the u.s. has lost an opportunity here by taking such a hands off approach to the syrian conflict. they lost the opportunity to influence what's happening on the ground and to ensure that groups and opposition members who do espouse more democratic values have any real success or power or influence. >> and of course you were in damascus about a year ago. how have things changed? what's the feeling among the opposition there? >> the change is dramatic. when i was in damascus a year ago people were talking about freedom, they were talking about dignity, they were talking about

democracy. nobody was talking about religion. now people, opposition fighters are calling this a jihad. there's been a real shift. but i would say that that shift is as a result of the desperation of the syrian people. the fighting has been going on for more than a year and half. the people have paid a high price for it. they feel western democracies particularly the u.s. have left them to die. >> thank you. >> now to felix baumgartner, the austrian daredevil trying to become the first sky diver ever to break the speed of sound. on sunday he made that record breaking jump from space ending with a perfect landing on earth. mark strassman is at the scene of the jurenovich in roswell, new mexico. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. at one point 8 million people were watching the skydive live on youtube shattering the site's record and they saw what the red bull team saw. one man's high drama at high altitudes. felix baumgartner stood day lone

with his thoughts 24 miles above new mexico. >> you become so humble you can't think about breaking records any more. the only thing you want is you want to come back alive. >> reporter: no one had ever fallen to earth quite like this. >> there's the release. his climb to earth stratsosphere has taken 2 1/2 hours. felix baumgartner was hoisted heaven word by a 50-foot story helium balloon. the 43-year-old austrian sky diver almost had to call it off on the way up. his visor had fogged over after a heater in his helmet quit. >> this is serious. i don't think i have face heating. >> reporter: joe was joe kittinger at mission control. in 1960 kittinger leapted from

102,000 feet. >> we'll take care of you. >> reporter: felix baumgartner fog adviser or not was jumping from 128,000 feet. but almost instantly he courted catastrophe. his body back to flat spin, rotating like a top. >> trying to regain control because i want to break the speed of sound. >> reporter: he did regain control and within the jump's first 30 seconds became the first human in free fall to break mach 1. >> i would like to give a special one finger salute to all the folks who said he would come apart when going super sonic. >> reporter: felix baumgartner was just shy of kittinger's record before opening his shoot and gliding to earth about 40 miles from where he launched. five miles of training for the highest, fastest free fall ever. >> never anticipated it would be so tough. sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how

small you are. [ applause ] >> reporter: what you saw was more than a stunt at least from nasa. they want to learn more about felix baumgartner's space suit and experience and norah he says he's through now with high altitude dives he wants to find work as a pilot in a rescue helicopter. >> tomorrow we'll hear from the daredevil in his first interview since that big jump only on cbs "this morning". now to the latest in the saga of malala yousufzai. she is the 14-year-old pakistani school girl shot by the taliban for speaking out against them. this morning she's on the move. she's been flown from pakistan to britain for further treatment including more surgery and therapy. elizabeth palmer is in pakistan. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: goomorning. malala yousufzai has been moved twice from one pakistani military hospital to another. now she's finally being sent

overseas. she was put on to a specially equipped jet early this morning and off to britain for more after care and special therapy. very little real information on how she's doing but we heard over the weekend her condition is stable and that doctors had reduced her sedation to see if they could determine how much damage has been done to her brain. we heard from a diplomat who had seen her en route to britain and they do expect her to make steady if slow progress. we've come from her home town up on the border with afghanistan. we saw the bus that she was sitting in when she was attacked by the gunman. police told us there that all the attack happened on a relatively busy road no witnesses have come forward. we went to the school that she championed so passionately. it's full. all the girl students have come to school and they told us that they and their parents even though they've been frightened

by this refuse to be intimidated. >> time to show you this morning's headlines. "the washington post" says that social security has determined its cost of living increase for next year. benefits will rise between 1% and 2%, one of the lowest increase since the 1970s. the typical retiree can expect between $12 and $24 more per month. >> the "chicago sun-times" reports congressman jesse jackson jr. allegedly used campaign money to decorate his home. the federal government is investigating jackson's campaign finances. that probe began before jackson took a medical leave from congress. the "wall street journal" reports medicare is using patient satisfaction to determine hospital payments, nearly $1 billion will be handed out over the next year based on a patient survey. hospitals with high scores get a bonus. those with low scores lose money. >> in montana, bat weather is hampering the search for two hikers. rescuers battled 70 mile-per-hour winds and

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hollywood banker brian mulligan is suing the los angeles police over severe beating. but now his own words may be used against him. >> i know this sounds crazy. >> this morning, we look at the newly released tape that backs up the lapd story. >> l.a. drivers know sometimes you're late because of traffic. it happened to the space shuttle "endeavour". we'll follow the orbiter's last ride on cbs "this morning". "this portion of cbs "this morning" is sponsored by

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. with all due respect this is a bunch of mala rmrky. >> a bunch of malarky? what does that mean. >> it's irish. >> irish means i come over and slap that dumb look on your face. because you're younger than me. let me tell you something, buddy, there's gym strong and there's old man strong, okay. you want to know my workout? when the amtrak breaks down on my morning commute i strip down to my tighty whities, i push that [ bleep ] all the way to washington. [ laughter ] >> good stuff. ing? >> go ahead. >> they did. they had a fun time with that debate certainly. i'm sure biden would find that

funny as well as paul ryan. welcome back to cbs "this morning". i'm norah o'donnell in washington. charlie rose is in new york. back in august we first brought you this story of brian mulligan the former tv executive who became one of hollywood's biggest investment bankers. he says two los angeles officers beat and injured him for no reason at all. >> mulligan sued the lapd for brutality and the department launched an investigation. this morning there's a new twist in this story. john miller from lapd deputy commission certificate here. >> charlie just when you think this story can't get stranger, it does. brian mulligan is a force to be reckoned with in the entertainment business. a former chief financial officer of seagrams. the former chairman of fox television now financing movies for deutsche bank in hollywood. this case is fairly low rent. it centers on allegations that mulligan may have been high on bath salts when he had his run

in with lapd. that may be a lie and we have uncovered new information. this is what prominent investment banker brian mulligan looked like last may after his violent encounter with los angeles police officers. his lawyer at the time claimed the assault was unprovoked. >> here's a guy that was unarmed, that had committed to crimes, and why they are using this kind of force to take him into custody is just absolutely mind-boggling. >> mulligan's story was a wild one. he said he had three strange encounters with police that night. and that they were hunting him in the streets. the lapd says mulligan seemed out of sorts and they went as far as to help him check into this hotel. but police found the banker back in the streets hours later trying to jump into moving cars. >> he took a fighting stance and charged at the officers and it

was at that point that the officers, you know, grabbed a hold of him to control him, took him to the ground and handcuffed him. >> both sides agree on this. mulligan one of the top bankers in hollywood was miles from home in a seedy neighborhood with $5,000 in cash. but they don't agree on this. the arrest report says mulligan told police he had used marijuana and ingested bath salts four days earlier. using bath salts which drug users calls white lightning can bring on symptoms of hallucination, panic attacks and violence which can go a long way to explain the behavior that police described that night. but mulligan's lawyers at the time said the allegations of bath salts were lies made up to justify a beating of a prominent hollywood financier. >> the police officers are

trying to excuse themselves from the beating of mr. mulligan. there's a lot of things in here that's ridiculous. >> but now cbs "this morning" obtained an audiotape of a glendale police department encounter with brian mulligan that occurred two days before the lapd incident. >> i know this sounds crazy but i feel there's people following me, i feel like there was a chopper, do you hear a chopper? >> we don't have a helicopter up in glendale right now. we don't come up until 9:00. >> okay. maybe i'm nuts. >> you taking any medication or you diagnosed with anything? >> later in the conversation mulligan admits he recently had taken bath salts the very drug that his lawyers deny he ever used. >> is there any reason for somebody to be following you? you're not like a wanted fugitive, are you >> i, i will tell you what i, i

bought some white lightning stuff which was bought at a store. so then i bought some more, i said this stuff -- >> small container. >> yeah. >> snort it? >> yes. >> bath salt? >> don't know what it is. >> how many times did you use it? >> probably 20 times. >> before they parted ways the glendale police officer offered mulligan this piece of advice. >> there's some residual effects to the stuff you were using, 20 times is quite a bit. >> john miller, has the lapd seen this tape? >> the lapd has an investigation into mulligan's accusation. they got the tape. they got to the glendale police officer and interviewed him and satisfied that indeed was brian mulligan, the same brian mulligan. mulligan's lawyer has no comment. but the plot thickens. >> status of the case and how does this change the status of the case?

>> mulligan filed a claim against the lapd saying this was an unprovoked beating. this doesn't change that. that process continues. the lapd's investigation continues. what this does is brings up a credibility issue when his lawyers say these things are untrue and here he is two days before the l.a. incident having this conversation with a police officer from another department. >> bath salts as a drug? >> bath salts have nothing do with taking a bath. this is a commercial name for -- >> really? >> exactly. a commercial name for a synthetic drug that's a first cousin of methamphetamine. that's why it brings on all the same symptoms, paranoia, panic attack, delusions. it's a factor of behavior. remember what the lapd said. they said right before they took him down he arched his hands like a bear, snarled at them and growled and seemed ready to charge which for some ration

enamel person wouldn't be too ration enamel but somebody on that drug it wouldn't be terribly uncommon. >> john miller, thank you. the captain of the "costa concordia" is back in court this morning. we'll show you what would happen to him and check on the condition of that capsized italian cruise ship. you're watching cbs "this morning". [ male announcer ] there's chicken

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usaa brings advice. call or visit us online. we're ready to help. space shuttle "endeavour" is in its new home at the california science center this morning but it's final journey took nearly a day longer than expected. as ben tracey reports moving "endeavour" through the streets of los angeles was as tough as any space mission. >> reporter: when the shuttle finally touched down at exhibition park on sunday nobody seemed to mind that "endeavour" was 15 hours late. >> in some ways i think that delay is a little bit of a blessing in disguise. more and more people were able to come out. >> reporter: yes and kara sergile came out. >> what do you think of the space shuttle?

>> really big. >> reporter: this endeavor became a big ordeal. it took 60 hours to travel 12 miles. here on earth the space shuttle simply ran out of space. 78--foot wing span came within a credit card's width of buildings and power poles. crews rushed ahead to trim trees and raising wires trying to keep it on the move. the city had already cut down 400 trees and elevated 100 power lines but it wasn't enough. as the crowd drew and often blocked its way the shuttle could have use ad booster robert. it slowed to 1 mile-per-hour. then a planned two hour maintenance stop stretched to five when hydraulic on the transporter started leaking. yet all those problems simply gave more people more time to gaze at space history. >> basically, where are you going to go see it? we went from here, came from there. >> reporter: "endeavour" got to see some l.a. landmarks.

it passed by rand chip's doughnut shop, passed over the 401 freeway and passed i'm outside a strip mall. in the final stretch down martin luther king, jr. boulevard navigating a wall of pine trees on its way to its final resting place. apparently "endeavour" was struggling with the idea of retirement. but it ended up here ti science center without a single scratch. it's final mission number 26 now complete. for cbs "this morning," ben tracey, los angeles. >> norah, everybody who was on that route has a prized photograph of "endeavour" in front of their place. >> i know. i love that. lives that sign that says shuttle crossing. that's a keeper. any old cell phone you don't know what to do with >> many. >> if you got an old phone how about trying a special atm that takes your old one and gives you money back. yeah. we'll show you how it works on cbs "this morning".

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♪ it is 8:00. welcome back to cbs "this morning". the presidential candidates are busy getting ready for their second debate. a new poll confirms the race is a virtual tie. author j.k. rowling will join us for her first live interview in the u.s. about her first novel after harry potter. but now here's what's happening in the world and what we've been covering on cbs "this morning". >> it is going great. >> president obama and governor mitt romney have quit campaigning for now. they are too busy preparing for tomorrow's second presidential debate. >> if i am barack obama, i'm focusing on one number, 47%. and if i'm mitt romney i'm going

to talk about in two words you deserve, you deserve to get your questions answered mr. president. you were asked a direct question and you chose to attack me. how will you work with congress when all you do is attack. >> felix baumgartner, the austrian daredevil made that record breaking jump from space ending with a perfect landing on earth. >> i regained control. >> what you saw was more than be a stunt at least to nasa, the space agency wants to learn more about felix baumgartner's space suit and experience. >> l.a. drivers know that sometimes you're a little late because of traffic. it happened to the space shuttle "endeavour". >> what do you think of the space shuttle? >> really big. >> this video shows a terrible car crash and seconds later the driver pops out from behind the wheel. >> bath salts as a drug. >> bath salts have nothing to do with take bath. >> lance armstrong not only used illegal steroids in his seven tour de france victories but

demanded the rest of his team use the drugs as well. that's it i'll never watch the tour de france again or before. [ laughter ] i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell is in washington. president obama and governor mitt romney hold their second presidential debate tomorrow. both men have been preparing for several days now. >> a just released nationwide poll shows the race is still very tight. the president leads romney by one-point. 49% to 48%. that's according to a politico george washington university poll. nancy cordes is with the obama campaign in williamsburg, virginia. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, again to all of you. obama campaign officials are working very hard to send the signal that the president is buckling down here in williamsburg, taking debate prep more seriously than he did the first time around when he now famously called it a drag. he's holed up at a large sprawling golf resort here in

williamsburg but he's not hitting the links. in fact officials tell us the only thing he's doing besides studying, eating, sleeping and hitting the gym. he emerged yesterday for about a half the hour visit a local campaign office and drop-off some pizzas but then back to the books. that was a big change from two weeks ago when he was preparing for the first debate. he went sightseeing to the hoover dam. he held a big rally in vegas. none of that this time, a sign of how seriously the campaign is taking this debate, how worried they are, in fact, after polls showed him losing ground in so many battleground states. here's another big change you guys. you might remember a couple of weeks ago how hard the campaign was working to try to down play expectations for the president's performance. you remember they said he's rusty, he hasn't done a debate in four years, this isn't his best format. all that turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. so they are not doing any of

that this time around. they say he'll be more passionate and energized than he was in the first debate. governor romney has also left the campaign trail. he's at home in massachusetts preparing for the debate with his advisers. all week he's been talking about how he's been seeing a crescendo of enthusiasm for his campaign and he's hoping to build on that tuesday night when the two men meet up in hampstead new york. >> a 4-year-old pakistani girl shot and wounded last week for speaking out against the taliban was airlifted to london this morning for treatment. charlie, it seems ironic the taliban tried to silence her and now she's an international story. good morning to you. >> reporter: that's right. good morning. source have confirm that malala yousufzai will be treated here at a special trauma hospital in central england. we're told she in stable condition. apparently stable enough to endure that medical evacuation

flight to the uk. doctors felt she should be transferred here because she will get the long term medical care she now needs to fully recover from physical and psychological effects of the shooting. we're told she will be treated at the queen elizabeth hospital in birmingham. it is a relatively new hospital, specializing in treating severe injuries and providing the kind of skull reconstruction and neurological treatment. shooting by the taliban horrified people in britain as well as in pakistan and the united states. there's also a sense she will be safer here than in pakistan where the taliban has already threatened to kill her if she recovers. >> charlie, thank you. you may also remember the debate just last year over giving the hpv vaccines to pre-teen girls. critics said it could lead to promiscuity. but a new study said girls who got the vaccine are no more

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♪ whenever you buy a new cell phone you have to do something with your old one. most of us put it in a drawer and leave it. but there is a new option. a california company is giving out instant cash for old phones. as jeff glor reports it's like using an atm to help the environment. >> reporter: place your device in the center of the test station. insert phone. don't forget your cash.

remove cash. >> if you happen to have any extra batteries. >> reporter: the koe of san diego based eco atm, not your typical money machine. >> place your device inside the chamber. the system will close on it and identify the phone. it will come up with a price. >> reporter: he says users can get more than $200 for some of the latest models and that his 181 kiosks across the country are the first to be used this way. >> most of the companies that will sell you a phone will also help you recycle that phone. >> reporter: this kind of recycling is quickly turning into big business. analysts at compass intelligence estimates there's 278 million deactivated or idle mobile phones in the u.s.. right now only 20% are recycled. >> can help you with another device if you have more. >> reporter: but just be

careful. >> they might shut their phones off and get the cash for it but i think a lot of people will make the mistake of not wiping their phone off in the first place. kibt real privacy concern. >> reporter: eco atm says it will encourage users to wipe their devices and the company does their own final data wipe. as for concerns about stolen items, users must scan a photo i.d. and be digitally fingerprinted before the phones remember sent off to be recycled. that last part is increasingly important. >> demand for cell phones which will double in ten years is going to cause bottlenecks in the supply of critical materials that are used in those phones. >> reporter: consumers can make sure those materials don't get wasted. but more immediately -- >> times are tough. so, yeah, definitely. 16 bucks i didn't have. >> reporter: they get to make a little money. for cbs "this morning," jeff glor, new york. >> chance to do work and do well

at the same time. >> never bad idea to make a little money. where are your phones? i have a bunch sitting in the drawer. >> on top of a drawer. >> now we need to figure out a way to go to california and make a little money. good idea. is this the best time to buy a house or is renting still the right move for you? rebecca jarvis is here to help you with one of the biggest decisions you'll ever make. that story is coming up next on cbs "this morning". >> "this portion of cbs "this morning" is sponsored by mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. the kind of vehicle to move not just people... but an industry forward? are we there yet? are we really? [ male announcer ] are we there yet? we are, for now. introducing the all-new seven passenger gl. motor trend's 2013 sport utility of the year. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.

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♪ we know that music and we know for sure the rolling stones are doing a 50th anniversary tour. the legendary band announced the first four dates this morning. they are playing two concerts in london next month and two more in december in newark, new jersey.

concert dates for other cities will be announced ahead. tickets for the concert in newark goes on next friday, the 26th. are your better off buying a roam or rernting one according to the real estate website, buying a home in a major metropolitan area is now 45% cheaper than renting. but there's a lot of other factors that are involved in buying a house. rebecca jarvis is here with five things you need to know before you make the decision. hello. >> hello, gayle. >> i was raised to believe that if you can own it you should own it whether it's your house, or car. now after reading about you this morning maybe that's not the best thing. >> get that it is a psychological thing for a lot of people. a lot of people think of owning a home as a right of passage and something to plan for the future. but right now what people have to consider are a number of things. first one being how long your planning on staying in that home? because what we saw in the housing crisis is that if you're trying to flip it or trying to make a quick move, you will end

up paying more on the front end of that home more than likely than the value get in your pocket when you walk away if it. so five to ten years is the amount of time you want to plan to stay in a home if you're going to be buying it, at least five to ten years. >> time is important. >> it is. >> second thing is location, location, location. >> always. you said it at the beginning of this report. location is going to play a role in whether or not you get a better deal renting or a better deal owning a home. in minneapolis for example rental prices are up 2.6%. whereas the cost of buying a home is down 30%. so in minneapolis it makes more sense on a month to month basis what you pay to buy. in tucson, arizona has been very battered home prices are battered because of the housing cry s-still makes more sense in many cases financially to rent. but you really have to do your diligence and look at your

specific location if you're thinking about making this decision and think about it from a -- what will it cost, what's the vacancy rate. because the higher the vacancy rate the more likely you'll find a deal. >> hidden costs are always an issue. >> in both cases. on the owning side think about the fact that there are closing costs, there's insurance, there's maintenance, there's upkeep. the costs on your life. the burden on your life of having all that money tied up in a home. whereas on the other side of things rental prices, those costs are going up. the national association of realtors says 4% increase is what we can expect this year and next year and the cost of renting overall in the country. that unexpected jump in rent is a cost but maybe you feel like the cost of owning is too much of a mental burden for you so the cost of renting weighs out to something slightly less because you have that burden, that intangible burden lifted. >> i've heard tax deductions are good if you own as oppose to renting.

>> they are. but the question is how long are they going to be here for? as washington grapples with balancing our budget that's a big question. people have to think about this decision can't be made because of a tax benefit because that tax benefit may not be forever there. they used to be sacred cows now they are on the table as negotiating tools. >> how do you land to pay for it. >> 20% down is the going rate. 20% is what you have to anticipate putting down on that home. your credit score is going to play into this heavily too. a lot of people see 3.41% for a 30 year fixed rate mortgage. ultimately you have to have a pretty decent credit score in order to access that kind of rate. so think about the fact that if you are planning to take up a mortgage on your home, you're going to be beholding to that credit score as well. >> great advice.

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♪ it is a busy morning outside our studios. some of those people waited up all night to see the creator of harry potter. >> they were not disappointed. she got here a few minutes ago. j.k. rowling, also known as rowling has a new book out. she will talk out about "the casual vacancy." welcome back to cbs "this

morning". i'm gayle king with charlie rose in new york and norah o'donnell is in washington. norah when j.k. rowling arrived she stopped and signed a few autographs for people waiting in line. they were not disappointed. >> good morning, gayle. i'm sorry not to meet her in person. big fan. i want to talk about 50 years ago this week many people were afraid that the u.s. and the soviet union were about to start world war iii and this morning some experts said the debate over iran's nuclear program has the potential to become just as serious as the cuban missile crisis. bill plante is here with me to take a look back. good morning. >> good morning. it is hard to overstate just how tense the situation was between the u.s. and the soviet union 50 years ago. and just how close we came to nuclear war. >> the purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the western hemisphere. >> when president kennedy told the nation in october 1962 that

the soviets were putting nuclear missiles in cuba, the announcement came as a shock. >> remember sitting at the screen staring at it. >> me too. >> me too. >> what was the reaction? >> there was some panic. people ran to grocery stores and took all the bread and the milk and, you know -- once the speech was given we all said oh, my god and it was the scariest week of our lives. >> what americans couldn't have known is that the crisis in the caribbean had already been per could late for a week after a u-2 spy plane detected missile sites being set up in cuba. inside the white house the tension had been building. president kennedy had assembled his team, top advisers, diplomats, military brass and his brother the attorney general. robert kennedy's recently released handwritten notes detail the options being considered. >> they talk about the case for action, case against, case for doing something, for doing

nothing. there's nomar begin for error here. >> nomar begin for error because the wrong move might trig ear launch of the missiles which could easily target washington or new york. on white house recordings the president can be heard wondering if disaster might be averted by offering the soviets a missile swap. >> if we said to khruschchev that, we have to take action against it. but if you begin to pull them out we'll take ours out of turkey. >> the president's first choice was a naval st >> if we go into cuba we have to all realize that we are taking a chance that these missiles, which are ready to fire won't be fired. so that's -- is that really a gamble we should take? in any case we are preparing to take it. >> it's a gamble jfk never had to take. khruschchev sent a private letter saying if u.s. promises not attack cuba he would pull

out the cuban missiles but the very next day khruschchev upped the ante. >> he will remove soviet missiles in cuba if we remove our missiles in turkey. >> jfk -- >> jfk said he cannot turn down the public offer. it's impossible. and what are we going to be if we end up in war over some useless missiles in turkey. every single person in the room opposes that position. >> what do they want to do? >> they want to turn the offer down, and instead force khruschchev back to the friday night proposal. >> complicating tissue a you-2 plane was shot down over cuba killing a pilot and generating calls for retaliation. in the end kennedy finessed khruschchev. publicly promising not to invade cuba while privately agreeing to remove missiles from turkey and the crisis was over. >> we had never been as close to

nuclear war as we were in 1962. >> today the players are different. this time it's the u.s. and israel wary of a nuclear iran. but the fear is just as genuine, which begs the question -- >> what would jfk do? >> he would being intensely interested in finding a space, an alternative that might have the characteristic of being better than attacking or better than letting iran become a nuclear state. >> today's confrontation with iran is like the cuban missile crisis in slow motion. big difference of course is that 50 years ago there were only two major players, the u.s. and the soviets. today there are three. the u.s., israel and iran, which makes a secret face saving solution like the one reached on cuba a lot more difficult. >> bill, we've learned over the years more about what the soviets intention were for putting those missiles in cuba

in the first place, right? >> that's right. record shows that castro was worried about another american invasion because this was happening a year and a half after the bay of pigs. the soviets put the missiles in. papers show neither khruschchev nor kennedy wanted any kind of nuclear confrontation. >> what lessons can be learned from the cuban missile crisis. i'm reminded how many military advisers were advising kennedy to bomb them. and he resisted that. >> there was a solution reached in secret between two powers. the different today is you have three major players. iran, the israelites, israel and the u.s. that makes a secret solution of any kind a lot more difficult. >> no doubt. bill, thank you very much. there's no magic but lots of dark social satire in j.k. rowling's new novel. the

♪ >> "harry potter and the deathly hallows" part two is part of a worldwide phenomenon. books, movies, merchandising, theme park started with a young orphan with a magical destiny. the seven harry potter books sold 450 million books sold in 73 languages and inspired eight movies. >> fans have been waiting for j.k. rowling's next project. now we have tans. her first adult novel "the casual vacancy." welcome. >> thank you. >> back to harry potter for one moment. are your happy with the movies?

>> yeah. >> did justice to what you had in your mind? >> definitely. wonderful experience. it really was. >> will you go back? >> to harry? >> yes. >> i always said i won't say never, but i have no plans. i think harry's story is pretty much done. >> what's amazing ten years, it all happened in ten years. >> yeah. yeah. ten very big years. it felt like another lifetime. >> you went from middle class to poor to before that. >> i've had a very strange life. >> interests you. >> poverty interests me having been very poor and clearly that formed this book. >> lots of people, husbands and wives are fighting each other, teachers and students, poor and rich. >> yeah. well there's no one really rich in this book. it's a small town in the south

of england, and, yes, you're right there's a good deal of conflict in there surrounding what we call a counselor state. what you call a counselor state, is it social housing? >> yeah. there's a casual vacancy deemed have occurred when a local counselor fails to make declaration of office within a proper time or when his never resignation occurs or on the day. >> did you feel pressure when you were writing this book? because so many people were waiting and anticipating. it's such a departure from what you've done. did you feel self-imposed pressure? >> yes and no. obviously i was aware that people were expecting and waiting and people were asking me all the time, literally in the streets what are you doing. but i was relishing having a private world in my head that no one knew about. it was fun. it was wonderful. it was a very enjoyable writing

experience. >> like the title casual vacancy. explain the title and the premise of thor to for those who didn't spend the weekend writing "the casual vacancy." >> as charlie just said "the casual vacancy" is a counsel that has vacancy. for me it has other meanings. everyone in this book has some vacancy in their lives that they are attempting to fill. >> does it make it dark? >> think it's funny, but it's dark humor. and there are places where, yeah, i say it becomes quite dark. but then people who read harry potter know i can do dark. >> i know -- we have to say i was so touched when i came to work this morning and there were a group of at least six, when i got here, women who had been here since 8:00 the night before waiting four. >> amazing. >> said to them why are you here? she said because she changed our lives.

how? she taught us love, friendship and loyalty. it's something society doesn't do fours. i was so touched by their love four. >> it makes me feel very emotional. incredible to hear. >> they have love for your. what do they mean to you? >> everything. obviously. to have people who understand your work to that degree and these are people who grew up with my book. so they occupy a special place in their lives for that reason. i think the things you see, things that meant a out there when you're a teenager particularly will mean a lot to you. >> it was said million of adults will recall their initiation to literature with a little touch of harry in the night. >> most beautiful thing to say. but he had a turn of phrase. >> end in "the casual vacancy"

you're still writing about teenage angst. that resonates with you. it does. maybe part of me is stuck in adolescence. i'm drawn to adolescence and writing about adolescence. in this book there's five very different teenagers, three girls, two boys a lot around whom the actions centers. >> during the olympics that you were given a very prominent role and you were nervous. >> how could i not be nervous? >> you are j.k. rowling. >> that's a very kind thing to say but that's not what was going through my mine. >> what was that experience like for you? >> it was simultaneously terrifying and one of the most wonderful thing i've ever done in my life. it was wonderful. and the british aren't very good at celebrating themselves. if we have quite a complex view about ourselves and that was one evening where we got it right and celebrated being british in a way that we felt comfortable

with and it was such an honor. >> having that experience and having all the money and all the success and all the fans, what do you wish for now? >> what everyone wishes for. i wish my children to grow up healthy and happy. i wish that i will be happy if i can just keep working. you know, for me writing is nearly everything. it's not absolutely everything because my family is important to me. but i need network. i need to write. >> do you get ideas wherever you go. you move around the world -- >> yeah. definitely. >> do you have an idea right now with charlie and i as you're sitting here? >> no. i think you should be glad to know we're concentrating on what we're doing now. i'm not concentrating on what i should write next. >> i can't say enough about the women who were out there that said you changed their lives. for many people to make that kind of impact -- we can go our whole lives and not make a

difference and here you have with millions of people. >> it's an amazing thing to hear. when i hear that from people i meet i never come up with an adequate response because -- literally my heart is too full to say that's -- i've had people say hogwarts was a safe place to go, people who weren't having the happiest time. >> congratulations and now "the casual vacancy" you'll get a whole other audience. >> i will. >> thank you, j.k.

♪ we love our special olympicians and they compete in different sports but surfing has never been one of them. as mark strassman reports one

mom in florida is making waves to get her favorite sport into the competition. >> let's get your board. >> reporter: surfers know every board is unique and so is every kid. 11-year-old emily foster has down syndrome. she was learning how to catch a wave in florida's special olympics, 100 surfers competed all of them with special needs. this event was a vision of jennifer rowlette reneau. she won a college basketball scholarship. she medaled in 97 competitions and was a member of the 1990 u.s. national surfing team. at first she was one of the only women surfing florida's coast. >> you surfed for the first time when you were 17. were you hooked right away?

>> first wave. first wave. paddle out. i knew i had a grin, i conscience it like yesterday. ear to ear. i said i'm doing this for the rest of my life. >> reporter: she's after another first. to get the national special olympics to certify it as an event. reilly her first grader was born with down syndrome. >> she has a smile. it's not what we planned but she's here and our lives are better for it. >> there you go. >> reporter: reneau taught reilly how to surf at age 1. >> i'm a surfer girl. >> there's no reason why she can't enjoy this. >> absolutely. she may not be the strongest padler, but she's more than capable. >> reporter: she created "smiley riley's beach bash," an annual

event for kids with down syndrome and their families. it led special olympics to include surfing. >> she understands. she has the knowledge of being able to deal with a special needs athlete. and she also has the knowledge to understand what their limitations are and she can push them knowing full well she has a special needs child that she pushes too. >> reporter: reneau is working to get other states like california to hold competitions like this. if that happens the national special olympics told her the next step is for surfing to become a demonstration sport at a future summer games. >> how commitrd you to making this happen? >> i'm going to do whatever i'm able to do. not just kids with down syndrome but kids with autism and developmental delays. >> emily foster rode her wave back to her thrilled family. for cbs "this morning," mark strassman in cocoa beach,

florida. it remind me of the old line that what you can imagine you can do. >> you can do. yes. every time i see a special olympics story, charlie, i'm amazed and marvel what they can do and it remind me of eunice shriver and what she started. look at where it is today. >> we wish jennifer well and "smiley riley". she's inspiring a lot of people. we wish them well. >> come back to new york, norah. >> see you tomorrow. >> up next your local news when we see you tomorrow right here on cbs "this morning".